Posted on 01/21/2008 2:04:38 PM PST by SkyPilot
DALLAS, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Dallas minister who marched with civil rights leader the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said Monday's birthday observance holiday is an insult to his legacy.
The Rev. Peter Johnson, 62, director of the Texas operations for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, told The Dallas Morning News the holiday should be on April 4, the anniversary of the date King was assassinated.
"We have ignored the essence of his life and the horror of his death," said Johnson. "We've allowed white America to escape the guilt of his assassination and we've allowed black America to drift back into a coma."
Johnson said King is considered a martyr by many but said, if he were alive, he would be considered an agitator by many people, the newspaper said.
"We remember him with parades and galas and banquets, things that are really irrelevant and silly regarding Dr. King's legacy," he said. "If we really want to honor Dr. King, we should do something about people who live under bridges. That would be a great tribute."
If he really was a Christian (as the Rev. before his name reads) - then he would be focused on saving souls for Jesus Christ.
"Black America"?????
Mr. Johnson can STFU ... he clearly has nothing useful to say.
Still Robert E. Lee Day here,,don’t feeeeel guilty at all..
“We’ve allowed white America to escape the guilt of his assassination”
Blow me.
But if there was no holiday we would all be racists anyway.
Interestingly, our home office is in WI where school is in session all day today.
Give it time. The Libs are into incrementalism. First, you make the birthday holiday. Then you make the death day a holiday. Then you make every day from January 15 thru April 4 a holiday. Then you get paid time off for all union workers in America. Then you work on April 5 thru January 14.
As a white person, I do not feel any guilt for MLK’s death. I did not shoot him. No member of my family would have shot him or advocated shooting him.
He was a fine man. This Rev is out of bounds.
I would say it is absurd to blame all white people for MLK’s death. Kind of sounds racist.
By your leave good sir.
A mind is a terrible thing to waste.
Does he mean trolls?
Rev Johnson evidently didn’t get the point.
Despite all the hype....MLK was not a saint. Do a Google search and you’ll be very unimpressed.
Would that include guilty white people, revrund?
Just another example of “The Man” tryin’ to bring a brutha down.
I completely agree.
Let's just get rid of it so we don't have to watch and listen to yet another replay of all the same b*llsh*t again next year.
What a convoluted position this person has taken.
Creating a national holiday celebrating the day that a great man was assassinated.
Ok, go to it. Or when you say ‘we’ you mean ‘you others’
"White America" did not assassinate Dr. King, though a white American did. Rev. Johnson, you have revealed yourself by your hateful comment to be a shameless racist. Indeed, your comment effectually murders white Americans by its hatred, as Jesus made clear about such comments.
One wonders, sir, whether a real Christian could make such a comment at all. Just what or Whom do you "Revere"? Dr. King would not approve, nor does Jesus.
No guilt here, didn't do it.
There is a bitch roaming the earth that I wouldn't mind feeling ...... about.
"Black America"?????
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
One day...but certainly not today for Peter Johnson.
Dr. King was not a saint, but he had the right idea.....too bad today’s race hustlers (evidently including Rev. Peter Johnson) have consciously and with malice aforethought prostituted Dr. King’s dream of racial equality for their own benefit.
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People like this including al and jesse make it difficult to move forward.
I still prefer John Moses Browning Day.
Like a couple of FReepers suggest.
“Black America” is not in a coma.
Some of it is consciously self-destructing.
And its not “Dr. King”, its Reverend King.
That would be nice.
I don't believe that the likes of Mr. Johnson share that dream ... quite the contrary, in fact.
I agree. Someone should tell them to get a damned job.
I didn’t even know I was in on the assassination. Have to check the phone logs from my teenage years to see when James Earl Ray called me up to relay my role. Couldn’t have been the trigger man, because I’ve only shot a gun once in my life — at a boar hog in Spain. And I definitely wasn’t the getaway driver, because i didn’t even have my license yet. In fact, I didn’t even know I was in Memphis that day! Screw him.
LOL
Then change it to Frederick Douglass Day!
MLK Day (or “Black Day”, as a well-meaning Japanese friend once accurately called it), is indeed an insult to all Americans. It revolts me that this man is given a national holiday, and yet neither George Washington nor Abraham Lincoln have their own days.
So all of “White America” was to blame for the minority of states where blacks were harrassed and attacked? I don’t recall any “White Only” signs in Connecticut.
When’s this asshat’s birthday?
"We've allowed white America to escape the guilt of his assassination"
I agree. Hey, Bro’ STFU.
None in California either.
He’s playing the race card AGAIN. Wonder why he suppoeted keeping the FBI files on MLK secret for 50 years? What is he hiding from us?
There is little doubt in my mind that based upon Mr. Kings "I have a dream speech", he looked forward to the day when all people would be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
That is an excellent dream. Unfortunately there are still many people of "all colors" that work assiduously to quell that "dream"! And this good "Dr" seems to be one as well.
"White Guilt!" - Total BS.
“Still Robert E. Lee Day here,,don’t feeeeel guilty at all..”
Jan. 19...Robt. E. Lee
Jan. 21...Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson
I observe both days.
Dang. Beat me to it!
I agree. Killing MLK was a terrible thing. He did not deserve such a fate. But, he also did not deserve a national holiday in his honor, a national holiday garnted no other American person. No longer is there a Washington Day, or Lincoln day; no, they have been jumbled together in a Presideent’s day. MLK is the only person who has a national holiday all to himself.
“We’ve allowed white America to escape the guilt of his assassination...
Translation: I want guilty white Marxists to steal money from productive citizens and buy me a Cadillac.
Plenty of saints weren’t saints. I have no trouble honoring the man for what good he did.
Good , reckon we’ll start on “Stonewall Jacksons’”,,
The pastor is an idiot.
We don’t celebrate the fact that MLK was murdered, but that he lived.
Truly a man playing without a full deck.
Washington does...Lincoln does not. In the United States Code, the third Monday in February is recorded as “George Washington’s Birthday,” although in the culture, it’s “Presidents’ Day.”
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